By Ruth Manuel-Logan on Jun 10th 2010 2:14PM
Filed under: News
The Medical Board's efforts to strip
Dr. Conrad Murray's license to practice have not ceased. Board representatives plan on going after the good doctor with both barrels in order to stop him from practicing medicine altogether in the state of California.
Dr. Murray was
Michael Jackson's internist and he is being
prosecuted for giving the mega entertainer
propofol, the anesthetic that killed him. The doctor, who was Jackson's physician for three years prior to his death, can no longer legally administer heavy sedatives or propofol as mandated by the
Texas Medical Board, where the physician holds a license.
Although in court documents Dr. Murray contends he will not practice medicine in the state of California, the filing states, "There is no legal bar to him changing his mind and engaging in practice in this state." The filing further mentions, "It is not just his 'prescribing' practices that are in question, but his fundamental judgment and skill as a physician."
The state attorney general's office also chimed in and argued in a brief on Monday that the current mandates against Murray's use of anesthetics is insufficient.
Meanwhile, Dr. Murray's attorney told the Associated Press that he will file a response with the court this week.
Dr. Murray is scheduled to appear in court on June 14th. As the holder of medical licenses in Nevada and Texas, Dr. Murray's legal team has previously debated how unnecessary it is to revoke his license in California, because he does not practice in the state. The lawyers also contend that the California revocation could have calamitous effects on his ability to continue to practice at his clinics in Nevada and Texas.
Last February, Dr. Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the King of Pop. If convicted, the physician faces a four-year prison term.
http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=868400&pid=868399&uts=1276003648
http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf
Your Hottest News Stories
02-June-2010 - A debt-collection agency decided to harass Allen Jones with a number of racist voice mails over a meager $200 credit bill.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Getty Images
Getty Images North America
Your Hottest News Stories
02-June-2010 - A debt-collection agency decided to harass Allen Jones with a number of racist voice mails over a meager $200 credit bill.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
01-June-2010 - In an effort to tackle the latest crisis, the horrendous BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, Bill Maher thinks Obama needs to act more like a "real black president" and go in to the BP meetings flashing his gat.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
31-May-2010 - Controversial Fox News host Glenn Beck thought it was okay to take shots at President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
28-May-2010 - When Bill O'Reilly had black scholar Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on his show, he joked that he "kinda looks like a cocaine dealer."
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
25-May-2010 - Ex-police Lt. Jon Burge may have overseen the torture of and obtained coerced confessions from more than 100 African-American men over the course of a 22-year career.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
28-May-2010 - Child actor Gary Coleman - best known for his role as Arnold Drummond on the sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes - has died at the age of 42.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
27-May-2010 - CNN was a little embarrassed after accidentally playing a rap song with the N-word in it. The gaffe was part of a segment about a 103-year-old woman, Gladys Flamer, who still drives herself around and lives alone in Coatsville, Pa.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
25-May-2010 - Mattel has launched a new line of Barbie dolls called "Back to Basics (pictured below)," which features several dolls, white and black, in (what I can only term) "after-5" wear: There are off-the-shoulder dresses, strapless minis and plunging necklines. The whole thing is absolutely freaky. It's like some odd soft porno featuring call-girl dolls.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
24-May-2010 - The 21-year-old R&B sensation recently went on a Tweeting tirade against Atlanta-based celeb gossip blogger Sandra Rose. Reportedly, Brown resorted to attacking the blogger's complexion by using juvenile "you're so black" jokes.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
23-May-2010 - If I'm blessed enough to live past my 10th decade on this planet, then 103-year-old Gladys Flamer is going to be my blueprint for how to behave after I pass the century mark.
Click Here for the Complete Story
Your Hottest News Stories
Fashion Week Flash: Tracy Reese Fall 2012 (PHOTOS)
54 Ways to Say "I Love You" In Africa
Comments: (6)
Add a comment
By: TammyM on 6/10/2010 4:23PM
I pray that suspending his license will have a, "calamitous effects on his ability to continue to practice at his clinics in Nevada and Texas." He killed his patient, people. If this was the Board of Nursing they would have had no mercy on him and destroyed his medical practice, bi-law after bi-law.
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: elizabeth on 6/10/2010 4:41PM
look at what clergy do to their members and they get away with rapes, murders, and all such activity so why is this man calledon for such scrutiny, they all do it in the name of greed and they continue year in and year out, I know precious souls whose lives were totally destroyed by so-called houses of God, I am so appalled at what can be done and no consequences whatsoever. I pray Protestants are also called to their actions as women have been abused for so long and nothing done about, some have lost their sanity, I lost my dad's chuech he built from the ground to a minister who first exposed and raped me and the clerics said he doesn't look like that type of a man, he still has license and a big church I was a part of building in Brooklyn, NY. when will somebody listen. I'm not condoning the man's deed. He was wrong totally.
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: MS PEGGY on 6/12/2010 5:05PM
Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! I know its just wishful thinking but I wish he'd face one penalty or the other but not both. He should either lose his license to practice medicine or serve time in prison but not both. A beloved celebrity is dead and there is nothing anybody can do to bring him back but ...
I can't help but to feel sorry for Murray too.
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: zeta on 6/12/2010 7:36PM
I understand the prospect of making $100,000/month or whatever MJ was paying him was irresistible, but a physician swears an oath to "first do no harm"!
Dr. Murray should have known better than to administer an anesthetic drug in a home first off, and without the aide of a ventilator set up as a back-up in case of emergency. He is a cardiologist not an anesthesiologist. If you are going to step outside of your scope of practice, you have to cross every T and dot every I.
He unfortunately has to pay the price for this lapse in judgement. He killed a patient, doing something that he should not have been doing in the first place.
You got to "pay to play"!
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: wouldb1 on 6/12/2010 9:38PM
as a private paying patient if i wont something medically and my doctor wont give it to me i would go to someone else,sadly as it is Mr Jackson was no stranger to drugs he had traveled the world and he was receiving medication from worlds of physicans,why fry one when many was liable!we are part of the blame we considered him a STAR!
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: laoma147 on 6/23/2010 9:07AM
http://www.vipshops.org
fr ee sh i pp ing
(jordan shoes) $32
(air max) $34
+++
wow
@@@@@@################
Reply to this Comment | Report This